Here's how you play Bitcoin Billionaire—tap. A lot. Each tap earns you (not real) Bitcoins based on how powerful your mining rig is. You can also tap with more than one finger, or even both hands if you're really into it. Your coins can be spent on miner upgrades and better stuff for your pad. There are also Amazon delivery drones dropping off random bonus packages and a variety of other events to keep it interesting. If you've ever played Cookie Clicker, this is similar.

This is a free-to-play game, but I have to hand it to Noodlecake for not being jerks about it. There are in-app purchases for special premium currency (hyperbits), but you earn a lot of them from playing, and there's very little push to spend money. Additionally, it's clever how Bitcoin Billionaire will offer you the chance to get bonuses by enabling banner ads for a few seconds or watching a short video. It's not really annoying at all because the ads feel like part of the game.

WTF is the point of this? If it actually paid people in Bitcoins, I would be more interested. It looks like they threw this together in a few hours. Also, I grew up in the 80s and 90s, so you'd think I'd appreciate the graphics, but I think they suck bad. It's 2014, I want my game graphics as life-like as possible, please.

mark boyle

It's called a game. You want the game to pay you to play? Sounds like you don't understand gaming. Sorry this game didn't have a billion dollar budget with CGI cutscenes.

Yeah, why not? If I'm going to play a game that solely involves tapping furiously on my phone to mine imaginary bitcoins, I might as well be rewarded with real bitcoins. I'm sure they could afford to pay out small fractions of bitcoins to players, nothing more than a few dollars a pop at a maximum. They could afford it, I'm sure they make a pretty penny from all the IAPs in their games.

Marcelove

"Hey you there!!! We gonna spend a lot of money developing a game, release it for free and if you do us a favor to download it and play, we gonna pay you!!! Because, of course, we gonna earn some money with IPAs and advertising, but we thought that would be fair to share it with you, even if you didn't paid nothing for the game and all costs are at our backs!!!"